unfed

Example Sentences

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“Her voice slips through our ribs, like a ghost, attracted by our hunger, by the space made for her in our shrunken, unfed bellies,” she writes of June.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2022

Wednesday I sat with Holtzman, unfed, through long meetings about fundraising for the Syria Trust.

From Newsweek • Jul. 30, 2012

“If people are unfed, unemployed, and see blatant corruption for 10 years, it leads to a dangerous combination,” he said.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2011

"Women are still the majority of the world's poor, the uneducated, the unhealthy, the unfed," she said.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2010

When Mr. Jones got back he immediately went to sleep on the drawing-room sofa with the Neivs of the World over his face, so that when evening came, the animals were still unfed.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell